Kerry O'Malley

Kerry O'Malley is an American actress whose career began on stage and later expanded into television and film. Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, she graduated from Duke University and trained at the American Repertory Theatre Institute. Her early work was in theater, and in 1998 she earned a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Elmer Gantry at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago. She appeared Off-Broadway and on Broadway, and in a 2002 revival of Into the Woods she played the Baker's Wife, a performance that brought her a Drama Desk Award nomination. On television, she was a regular on two short-lived sitcoms, Costello (1998) and The Mike O'Malley Show (1999), and she later had recurring roles on Brotherhood, Boardwalk Empire, Shameless and Snowpiercer. Her film work includes Rounders (1998), The Happening (2008), Case 39 (2009), Earth to Echo (2014), Annabelle (2014), The Killer (2023) and Mea Culpa (2024).